Email addresses linked with physical location for item delivery
Given that people are always on the move, it can’t be guaranteed that they will be at home to receive their post, leading to failed deliveries. Belgium service Cardrops has already used consumers’ car trunks to ensure items are successfully delivered. Now, UK-based SoPost wants people to begin using their email addresses as a delivery location, which can be attached to multiple delivery points. READ MORE…
In San Francisco, site delivers high quality restaurant food to the door
Subscription services such as Mantry and Kopi have already tapped into the market for to-the-door gourmet food. Aiming to do the same thing for high quality restaurant food in San Francisco, Caviar delivers meals from eateries which are highly rated on customer review site Yelp. READ MORE…
In Belgium, delivery service uses car owners’ trunks
There are plenty of services that offer to take online shoppers’ packages for pickup at a time that suits them – take Miss Nev, PickupZone or UseYourLocal, for example. However, all of these ventures require the user to travel to a location in order to collect their goods. From Belgium, Cardrops is a system which delivers packages straight to car owner’s trunks. READ MORE…
Online order tracking tool for gift recipients
Slice is a California-based company that enables customers to view, track and organize their online purchases from different retailers, in one place for free. For the Christmas season they have launched an additional “Track with Friends” feature that allows users to send personalized notifications to gift-recipients, so those with gifts on the way can track their present without knowing what it is or how much it cost. READ MORE…
App facilitates quick local delivery by otherwise idle couriers
According to Postmates co-founder Bastian Lehmann, retail stores spend an average of fifteen hours per month fulfilling shipping requests, which distracts from their main objective of selling. When a personal experience also highlighted the lack of easy ways to ship physical goods locally, Lehmann was inspired to create Postmates — a service that connects couriers and bike messengers in between jobs with local businesses looking to make short-range shipments. READ MORE…
Online hosiery store offers subscription-based deliveries
We’ve already seen the subscription model applied to a wealth of various industries, from indie song playlists, limited edition art, lip balms, and even to Swedish kitchen cloths. More in the vein of Manpacks and Panty by Post however, we recently came across Hoseanna, a US-based service delivering hosiery to their subscribers. READ MORE…
Combined deliveries from small, local grocers
It was just a few short months ago that we covered the UK’s Beelocal grocery delivery service, and already we have occasion to cover yet another like-minded venture. Also in the UK, London-based Hubbub lets customers place online grocery orders with multiple local shops and receive a single, aggregated delivery to the door. READ MORE…
